The Chimes: A Goblin Story, Of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In.
Illustrated with 13 black and white engravings including the frontispiece and additional title page by various engravers including John Leech.
First Edition. 8vo. [171 x 114 x 15 mm]. [4ff], 175 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt with a border tooled in blind, all edges gilt, plain endpapers. (Visibly rebacked, corners a little bumped, with heavy fading to the spine and some staining on the boards).
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845
Occasional foxing, most noticeably to the titlepage and frontispiece, some pencil marks within. A good copy.
Stock no. ebc8734
The Chimes: A Goblin Story, Of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In.
Illustrated with 13 black and white engravings including the frontispiece and additional title page by various engravers including John Leech.
First Edition. 8vo. [171 x 114 x 15 mm]. [4ff], 175 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt with a border tooled in blind, all edges gilt, plain endpapers. (Visibly rebacked, corners a little bumped, with heavy fading to the spine and some staining on the boards).
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845
Occasional foxing, most noticeably to the titlepage and frontispiece, some pencil marks within. A good copy.
Stock no. ebc8734